The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 37, sentence 77

What a sight the river banks presented in those days!

What happens: present · To what, where: river banks

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	3 sight	det
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 sight	det
3	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 banks	nsubj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 banks	det
5	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 banks	compound
6	banks	bank	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	presented	present	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 banks	acl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 days	case
9	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	10 days	det
10	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 presented	obl
11	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 banks	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	present	participle		the river banks not said here			day		vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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